Born
1969
Lahore, Pakistan
Education
1995 Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), National College of Arts, Lahore
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012-13 'The Last Post', Linda Pace...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012-13 'The Last Post', Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
2007 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2006 'Shahzia Sikander: New Work', Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2005 '51 Ways of Looking', Brent Sikkema, New York
2005 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2004-05 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2004 'Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis', The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2004 'Shahzia Sikander: Flip Flop', The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
2004 'Contemporary Links: Shahzia Sikander', The San Diego Museum of Art,San Diego,CA
2003-04 'Drawing to Drawing', Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2003 'SpiNN', Brent Sikkema, New York
2001 'Intimacy', ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
2000 'Acts of Balance', Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
1999-2000 'Directions: Shahzia Sikander', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1998 'Shahzia Sikander', The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
1998-99 'Shahzia Sikander: Drawings and Miniatures', The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
1997 'Murals and Miniatures', Deitch Projects, New York
1997 'A Kind of Slight and Pleasing Dislocation', Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
1996 'Knock Knock Who's There? Mithilia, Mithilia Who?', Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
1996 'Art Celebration 96: Shahzia Sikander', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
1993 Pakistan Embassy, Washington DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 'Diva', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2012 'The New Century', Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
2007 'Global Feminisms', Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007 'Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History', SFMoMA, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA
2007 'Not For Sale', PS1, Long Island City, New York
2006 'Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian Painting', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2006 'Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking', Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2006 'Shahzia Sikander', The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2006 'Nuevos Misticos/New Mystics', Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
2005 'Translation', Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2005 'New Work/ New Acquisitions', The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2005 'Drawing Narrative,” College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
2005 'Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
2005 Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen, IFA: Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin
2004 'The Joy of My Dreams', First International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Charterhouse of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville, Spain
2004 'Through Master's Eyes', LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2004 'Anywhere but Here: Seven artists Permanent Commissions for Barts and The London Breast Care Center
2004 'Watercolor Worlds', Dorsky Gallery, New York
2003 'Aliens in America: Others in the USA', Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
2003 'Drawing the World: Masters to Hipsters', Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; British Columbia
2002-03 'Drawing Now: Eight Propositions', Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York
2002 'Time/Frame', Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2002 'Urgent Painting', Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris
2001-04 'Conversations with Traditions: Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander', Asia Society, New York; traveled to: Middlebury College Museum of Art,
Middlebury, VT; Royal Museum of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
2001-03 'Conversations with Traditions: Nilima Sheikh and Shahzia Sikander', The Asia Society, New York; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury,
Vermont; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
2001-02 'ARS 01', Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2001 'Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize', National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2001 'Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics', Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2001 'Expanding Tradition: Contemporary Works Influenced by Indian Miniatures', Deutsche Back Lobby Gallery, New York
2001 'New Works: 01.1 Rivane Neuenschwander, Shahzia Sikander, Tony Villejo', ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
2001 'New Artists, Recent Works', Rhotas Gallery, Islamabad
2000-01 'Projects 70', Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
2000 '00', Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2000 'Drawing on the Figure: Works on paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2000 'Greater New York', P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York
1999 'Art-Worlds in Dialogue', Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1999-2000 'The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1999-2000 'Beyond the Future', The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1999 'Negotiating Small Truths', Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1998-99 'Cinco continentes y una ciudad: Salón internacional de pintura', Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico
1998-99 'I Love New York', Ludwig Museum, Cologne
1998 'Pop Surrealism', Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1998-99 'Global Vision: New Art from the 90s, Part II', Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens,
1998 'On Liberating Tradition', Byron Kim, Yinka Shonibare and Shahzia Sikander, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
1998 'On the Wall', Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
1998 'Hedge: Between Time and Intent', Thomas Healy, New York
1997-98 'Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora', Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, New York
1997 'Project Painting', Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York
1997 'Selections Spring ‘97', The Drawing Center, New York
1997 'Three Great Walls', Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1996 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas
1996 Core Fellows Exhibition 1996, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1994 A Selection of Contemporary Paintings from Pakistan, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Participations
2013-14 'Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists', The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
2012-13 'Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art', Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2006-07 'Dirty Yoga: 2006 Taipei Biennial', Taipei
2006 'SpiNN', Video Venice section of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide
2005 'Always a Little Further', 51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2004-05 'The Print Show', Exit Art, NY
2004 'Along the X-Axis: Video Art from India and Pakistan', Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi
2004 'Beyond East and West', Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois; Louisiana State University
Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire;
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
2003 'Poetic Justice', Eighth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2002-03 'AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition', Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
1997 Biennial International for Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
1997 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1996 'An Intelligent Rebellion, Women Artists of Pakistan', Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford, England; Rotherham Art Gallery, Rotherham, England
Honours and Awards
2012 Honored by Art in Embassies
2006 Macarthur Foundation...
2012 Honored by Art in Embassies
2006 Macarthur Foundation Fellowship
1999 South Asian Women's Creative Collective Achievement Award
1999 The Joan Mitchell Award
1999 Tiffany Foundation Grant
1999 Core Fellowship, Glassell School of Art, Houston
1999 Graduate Fellowship Award, Rhode Island School of Design
1999 Haji Sharif Award, Excellence in Miniature Painting, National College Of Arts, Lahore
1999 Distinction Award, National College of Arts, Lahore
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